time is an onion

[arethinn]

I hate multi-layered deja vu. Or not hate, exactly, but it really feels like an extra helping of weird. I was just changing my MSN name when I got a serious bout of it, not just about the situation of changing my name to that name, with that icon, while a certain line from a certain episode of MST3K was playing on the TV, but about having the deja vu itself, and further, I know that this one has happened to me several times (i.e., I have already had deja vu about having deja vu about this setup). In fact I think it's at least three layers deep. I know this has happened to me at other times with other scenes, too. Do any of you ever get this kind of ... meta vu?

Comments

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

Happens to me ALL THE FRICKEN TIME. I'll have a deja vu attack, and then a flash of where I was when I had the flash of what I'm having the deja vu attack about. o_O

[rainsingingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes, and it's rather annoying.

A stupid joke from an exhausted mind (finals are like that)

[kistaro]

Y'know, I get the feeling that it's happened to me before, but I'm not sure.

[blueeyesblazing.livejournal.com]

I've also had the multi layered dejavu. It's nervewraking.

[bluegodjanus.livejournal.com]

Are you sure time isn't like a parfait? Everybody likes parfaits.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Onion parfait.

[ninth-myth.livejournal.com]

yes. and it's worse when it's a multilayer effect building -foward- as though it's setting the ground work for deja vu to be experienced at some point in the future.
sometimes i almost let myself become convienced that these things form a kind of time map to reference personal chronology against with jumps back and foward in time, place and universe. i think the layering works as a matrix so you can read up and down the links as well as just across, or something.

[ahril.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. I get that. It happens especially when I've dreamt it while sleeping and known at the time I was dreaming a scene from a "future' moment of my current incarnation (usually something quite brief and innane, like picking up an object in a certian room say). When that moment actually arrives and I'm in it, and I do the required trigger action, I get both the deja vu of "I've done this before." and the deja vu of "And I had a dream about it too." So at that moment, I've got 2 layers of reality plus a dream. Very weird experience that.

[heartssdesire.livejournal.com]

I have had that experience too. I have a couple of "moments", where a certain combination of visuals and happenings in my surroundings ring that deja vu bell, except they've happened several times and I can't tell what the original referent of the "memory" is.

Here is my wacky theory... sometimes I wonder if it's actually a kind of memory in reverse--"remembering" something that hasn't happened yet. A regular memory we keep in there, and can revisit it many times whenever stuff reminds us of it. So maybe the multiple-deja-vu thing is that same thing, except the original thing that is being remembered is in the future. It would make sense why it feels so freakin' weird, memory is not supposed to work in reverse.

The thing that seems the weirdest to me is how random these things are. It almost always seems to be some insignificant moment of nothing particularly meaningful.